Christine Kushner ***-***-

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Palo Alto, CA 94303

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

ELECTRONIC ARTS, Redwood City, CA (Contract Position through Premier

Staffing) July 2012 - Sept 2012

Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment

delivering games, content and online services for Internet-connected

consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

Executive Assistant to the Senior Vice President, Games Label Marketing

. Maintain calendar and schedule for extremely busy executive whose

meetings and conference calls were constantly changing. It is necessary

to prioritize her schedule and maintain flexibility to accommodate last

minute meetings and special requests from senior management as well as

her direct reports. Calendar management is made additionally complex

because her manager is based in Stockholm so time zone considerations

have to be taken into account for approximately 30% of the meetings.

There is a great deal of time-sensitive planning because of her

responsibilities as press liaison for EA Games and their release dates.

. Worked with corporate travel department to arrange domestic and

international travel. Trips are often arranged with only one day notice

so arrangements require speedy settlement of travel details regarding

flights, accommodations and other special needs (car service, hotel

meeting space, etc.). International travel can consist of visits to

several countries on a single trip as the corporation has offices in many

US, Canadian and European countries.

. Reconciled expense reports for the SVP and her direct reports.

Utilizing their online expense reporting system which is tied directly to

corporate card usage, I was able to clear past expenses and ensured that

current expenses were submitted for payment in a timely manner.

. Worked with Human Resources and Facilities for the on-boarding of new

hires. This included permanent and contract employees and required

coordination with the IT department to assure that the new employee had

immediate access to the internal portal and email identity and access as

well as ensuring that facilities provide the proper equipment (laptop or

desktop computer, monitors, software) so the employee could be up and

running on their first morning onsite.

P. R. TAYLOR GROUP, INC., Palo Alto, CA (Contract Position through Palo

Alto Staffing) January 2012 - April 2012

P. R. Taylor Group is a premier real estate development firm based in Palo

Alto, CA.

Executive Assistant and Office Manager to the Managing Partner

. Provide Executive Assistant support to the Managing Partner of a real

estate development firm. Worked with their Contact Management Database

system called SalesLogix to maintain new and existing contacts and link

them to the proper affiliations. Assisted the part-time accountant with

reconciling bank statements and bill payment. Created spreadsheets for

organizing accounting procedures for different company entities.

Maintained confidentiality while assisting on special projects.

NOSAL PARTNERS, San Francisco, CA

July 2010 to July 2011

Nosal Partners is a mid-sized executive search firm that delivers

customized executive search to a worldwide clientele.

Executive Assistant and Project Coordinator, Executive Search Firm

. Maintain extremely complex schedule and calendar for the CEO who travels

approximately 70% of the time. Includes scheduling business development

meetings with potential clients; phone or in-person meetings with clients

and video or phone interviews with candidates. An additional challenge

is that the CEO prefers a hard-copy calendar so with the constantly

changing schedule, an email must be sent to add any new meetings to the

schedule.

. Work with client CEOs, Board Directors, Private Equity partners and Human

Resources professionals to schedule meetings and arrange update calls and

meetings.

. Work with travel department to arrange domestic and international travel.

With shifting priorities, am able to make immediate changes to travel

schedules to allow the CEO to augment effective time management and make

the most of increased revenue potential.

. As project coordinator, schedule candidate interviews with clients,

coordinate travel for candidates to meet clients and maintain intricate

database of information and research data.

VARIAN INC. (Contract Position through Palo Alto Staffing)

August 2009 - June 2010

Varian Inc. is a premier measurement company and a technology leader in

chemical analysis, life sciences, electronics and communications. Varian

was acquired by Agilent Technologies in July 2010.

Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Strategic Marketing

Provided Executive Assistant support to the VP, Strategic

Marketing including heavy calendaring, arranging international and domestic

travel, reconciling expense reports. Also served as database administrator

for new consultative selling tool for global sales and marketing teams.

Planned on-site conference for Global Marketing managers. The manager was

a key contact person during company's acquisition requiring me to handle

extremely confidential information.

CTPARTNERS (Formerly Christian & Timbers), Menlo Park, CA

July 2006 - November 2008

CT Partners is a leading performance driven executive search firm serving

clients across the globe.

Executive Assistant to the Partner, Executive Search Firm

. Coordinate schedules for the Partner to include in-person or

videoconference meetings with candidates and meetings / conference calls

with clients. Meetings include sales presentations to new clients,

weekly status update calls with existing clients and candidate

interviews.

. Coordinate all activities for Next Generation Directors' Dinner, a thrice-

yearly event where high-level executives who currently have little or no

board experience would be able to meet and discuss board service with

executives who currently sit on Boards of Directors. The event is kept

to a small number (less than 20) to allow the conversational flow of

ideas and provide a

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"training" forum for executives who aspire to board service.

. Managed personal aspects of the partner's schedule including bill

payment, immigration paperwork, technologies issues and other ad hoc

personal errands and assignments as requested to enable him to spend

additional time for market development.

. Arrange domestic and international travel, enabling the partner's

extremely dynamic schedule by closely managing travel changes in real

time.

. Project manager for in-progress meeting of worldwide partners to take

place in January 2008 in New York to do business development for the new

sub-practice being created within the firm. Assignments include

negotiating hotel and conference room space in New York City, preparing

internal meeting materials, scheduling partners' meetings with client

firms in the New York City area and arranging dinner with a guest speaker

for internal partners.

ALLOY VENTURES /SERIOSITY, INC., Palo Alto, CA (Contract Position through

Palo Alto Staffing) May 2006 - June 2006

Seriosity, a startup company incubating in the offices of Alloy Ventures,

provides consulting services and supporting software products to improve

collaboration, innovation and leadership by using game principles that

create focus and motivation to align personal and corporate goals.

Executive Assistant to the General Manager and CFO

. Conducted property search for start-up software development company,

including meetings with realtors, property inspection and space planning;

investigated phone service options and cubicle/furniture needs; organized

files and catalogued corporation documents, consulting and non-disclosure

agreements and patent documents; proofread due diligence documents, legal

contracts and personnel agreements.

CHARTER LIFE SCIENCES / CHARTER VENTURE cAPITAL, Palo Alto, CA

June 2005 - September 2005

(Contract Position through Palo Alto Staffing)

Charter Life Sciences is a clinical stage life sciences venture capital

investor.

Executive Assistant to the Managing Director, CFO and four general partners

. Tasks included all aspects of administrative support including

reconciling monthly credit card statements, extensive travel

arrangements, compilation of fund-raising presentations and proofreading

of due diligence reports.

VISA INTERNATIONAL, Foster City, CA

October 1995-November 2004

Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers,

businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200

countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments.

Executive Coordinator, Executive Briefing Centre

. Assistant to Vice President and manager of Executive Briefing Centre and

responsible for coordination of all planning functions for strategic

communications meetings (typically 10-15 in various planning stages

concurrently), including

o Customized briefings for Visa Boards of Directors and other

bank executives

o Support for CEO Briefings and All-Center Off-Site meeting

. Coordinated calendar for all Executive Briefing Centre planning

activities which required input/output from/to Regions, Center Management

and Member banks. This entailed simultaneous scheduling of multiple

events with lead-time ranging from one week to several months.

. Researched content, and prepared material, for inclusion in Member

packages including backgrounders, fact sheets, brochures, and

presentation copies.

. Arranged domestic and international travel to regional offices and

corporate meetings using corporate travel department and internet

sources. Tasks included creating itineraries, booking hotels and

restaurants and processing expense reports.

. Greeted Members upon arrival and presented an introduction to the

briefing experience. Demonstrated new payment technology (Visa Cash at

ATM and POS; biometrics; proximity payments and mobile commerce).

. Addressed real-time needs of Members, which might arise during the

briefings (additional speakers to agenda, data or statistics gathering,

changes to their personal itinerary - flights, hotels, etc.).

. Composed special correspondence (welcome and thank you letters, follow-

up, etc.) to Members and other guests.

. Created an introductory "Overview of Visa" PowerPoint presentation and

updated the organizational charts as needed and the statistical charts

and graphs on a quarterly basis.

. Managed project for Visa white paper, "Payment Solutions for Modernising

Economies", written in collaboration with the Commonwealth Business

Council in London. Tasks included scheduling meetings between CBC and

Visa personnel in all regions; writing and editing copy; formatting

document and working with the design team on final publication.

Temporary Assignments with VISA INTERNATIONAL

1993 - 1995

Transaction Processing Products

. Provided support to Senior Vice President and six staff including

correspondence, preparing presentation materials, scheduling meetings,

preparing expense reports, including the Manager of the Visa Executive

Briefing Centre who hired me as the first full-time employee for the

newly established department.

Corporate Relations

. Provided administrative support to the Director of Corporate

Communications and his staff. Provided support for Public Affairs Vice

President and public relations staff involved with technology issues and

risk management issues.

Education / Professional Development

Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI, AA Degree

Broadcasting and Communications

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Proficient in Microsoft Office program: Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel

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